University-in-Différance

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University – in – Différance is a model of intercivilizational  communication on the basis of deconstruction in the perspective of a dialogue. The issue is to arrange conditions for the process of intercivilizational communication being opened to other modes of thinking, other logics in addition to the Western ways of thinking.  In our model intercivilizational communication is not grounded on the similarity principle but on the diversity (différance).

With instruments of cultural anthropology and social studies we arrange conditions for representatives of diverse civilizations, for a guest/alien and a host/self to interact .

The objective is to shift communication from civilizational to intercivilizational mode. A dialogue between actors  emerges  as a prove of discovering the common ground in the intercivilizational channel. We focus on such  assumptions as time and space as well as those ones related to notions of personality, patterns of social relations, ethical and moral issues.

We are searching for ‘problem zones’ related to cultural diversity, stereotypes and differences in thinking. Each of the counterparts in this process has an opportunity to go out of the borders of his/her socio-cultural world and  the deconstruction process opens the chance to come to  the intercivilizational communication code.

At the point when it is possible to overcome the conditions of someone’s own civilization and make a relative coming out of its limits, a site for a dialogue is being built in the interaction process. The matter is that the condition of nobody dominating the other is only possible in the situation of multiple contexts and in this case the actors are equal.

Due to its relative nature we refer to the language of postmodernism as we think this language  is open to codes of other worlds  (including in the Eastern one) . It is the very same approach which has challenged the problems of colonialism, orientalism and questioned the issue how to speak to ‘silent worlds’.

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